The BBC have released results of a survey undertaken in 2012 involving 166 clubs in 10 divisions across British football, including the Conference Premier and Women’s Super League gathering the prices for the most expensive, and cheapest, season tickets and adult matchday tickets along with a programme and some say, most importantly a pie and tea. The… Read more »
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Mapping #OpFortress tweets
The Twitter hashtag #OpFortress refers to Operation Fortress, a Hampshire Police operation to reduce crime in Southampton. The police force have been Tweeting about it, reporting updates, arrests, raids or crimes – with road names in the Tweets. Road name = location data… Location data = mapping visualisation. An ideal method to visualise where the… Read more »
Mapping Mr Correcter tweets
As an update to a previous post about Mr Correcter, the Twitter spelling bot here is a post about how I managed to find and geolocate so many offenders. Quick update; Mr Correcter was a script that searched Twitter for 2x common spelling mistakes (beleive and acommodate) and replied back to the tweeter reminding them… Read more »
A new Openlayers WMS Layer for using Ordnance Survey Openspace map tiles
I have created a quick implementation of the OpenLayers WMS class to use Ordnance Survey’s OpenSpace tile servers. The Openspace service is usually accessed via they’re Javascript API but this is tied to an old version of OpenLayers and so this is just a quick workaround to use the latest Openlayers library with OS backdrop… Read more »
New maps.robertomurray.co.uk application
I have just re-written the maps.robertomurray.co.uk site and the first version is running. The new site uses Googlemaps API v3 and Ordnance Survey’s Openspace for the backdrop mapping and you can switch between the two easily. The current features are just to plot a point, search and display geoRSS feeds but these will be added… Read more »
Ordnance Survey: OpenData
Big day for geographers in Great Britain today – Orndance Survey launches OpenData – basically some OS datasets but without any upfront charge or continued charge through licensing. A huge milestone and change of direction for OS, albeit forced upon, as demonstrated with the press coverage such as BBC and Guardian – in fact Im… Read more »
Google maps API: Elevation data
I am always amazed at the regular new features added to the Google maps API – this one is no different and something I have been keenly waiting for: Elevation data. As described here, this data is available via the Google maps API v3 or its own dedicated service. Incredibly useful for all sorts of… Read more »
Mobile navigation: free software opens competition
An example of a software giant entering a market with ‘free’ software and essestially totally disrupting it is the recent announcement that Google Maps Navigation is out for the Android devices – for free. The market for mobile navigation, be it for cars, off road leisure users or pedestrians has always been based around specific… Read more »
Free public data: UK Government reaching out ?
I think its more like reaching out and and also hitting you at the same time. I’m talking about plans and indeed actions around making public sector data freely available to not just web developers to build innovative and useful applications but anyone in general who wants to find out pretty much anything about the… Read more »
Google maps My Location comes to your desktop
You may notice now that when using Google Maps on your desktop computer you have a new feature called My Location (in the control panel). This is exactly that, click on the blank icon and Google Maps will attempt to find your physical location using the W3C Geolocation API which is now supported in Google… Read more »
